This web-site contains software and toolkits to allow educators
to conduct examination-style assessments using computers instead of pen &
paper. The intention is to assist curriculum transformation by making available
techniques and reflections on their use.

June 2013: Version 5 development funded

Mathew Hillier at the
University of Queensland received a grant from the Australian Office for
Learning and Teaching to work on a pilot version of the eExam System. This is
likely to include a Moodle instance on the USB startup stick and may
incorporate a secure communication link to an answerscript collection server.

April 2013: Version 4 released. The
open-source version now boots from just a USB on both Macs and PCs (collect a
USB image from the download section). Licences will soon be available for the
greeter version – automatically opens the exam question paper and saves it with
candidate ID number in the Answers partition.

June 2012: A new procedure
for making your own eExam USB at home has been released for trial… try it out.

December 2011: Pre-tertiary field use of
eExams

Following a successful mid-year trial, nearly one hundred
pre-tertiary Year 11 and 12 students sat their end of year Information
Technology and Systems exam using computers… read more

March 2011: The University of Tasmania Academic
Senate Approved the use of
eExaminations in all
subjects.